MediaTek Helio G90T vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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MediaTek Helio G90T Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2050MHz MediaTek Helio G90T vs. 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Helio G90T Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (12nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 11W)

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3343 TFLOPS vs 0.2304 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2342MHz vs 2050MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

MediaTek Helio G90T +53%

357644

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Helio G90T +66%

652

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

391

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Helio G90T +132%

1850

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Helio G90T

230

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +45%

334

MediaTek Helio G90T

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

CPU

2x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A76
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

2050 MHz

Frequency

2342 MHz

8

Cores

4

-

L2 cache

1 MB

12 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP4

GPU name

Adreno 530

800 MHz

GPU frequency

653 MHz

4

Execution units

1

36

Shading units

256

10

Max size

8

0.2304 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3343 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Hexagon 680

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 64MP

Max camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jul 2019

Announced

Aug 2016

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6785V/CC

Model number

MSM8996 Pro-AC

MediaTek Helio G90T

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

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